Thursday, July 21, 2011

Know your worthiness and dream BIG

No body is born with skills to 100%. Of course we can have some skills in the genes inherited. I believe this nature has given us to help us start again. In this difficult world, to expect something more than that would be pretty stupid in my opinion. That's why I think our natural capacity is only 10% (figure for the sake of here :-)) so in total, we can build our careers and our lives. The accurate perception of the professional work of concentration and hard when it comes to paying the construction of the remaining 90%.

The secret of its success lies in establishing the correct perception of his career. So I think to know the following will help.

Know your own creditworthiness at two levels

a. For the current demands of the organization
b. For future prospects in the organization and its aspirations

Let me explain what I mean above.
Knowing your credit is all you will explore, identify their core competencies and heights can be upgraded in the area where their skills and the ability to match. In other words, your ability to think it has to be after 5 years 10 years 20 years 30 years. If not, there's no better time than now to do so.

Simple examples of such cards is

* In five years - to be a project manager, 80-10 years at the helm of a display unit, 15 to 20 years - the owner / VP, 20 to 30 years - Director General / Director of Operations, 30 -40 years as president of a company at the table, etc, etc.
* Or you can be - in five years - a breakthrough technology, 10 years - being a solution architect, 15 years - technical consultant and so on.
* Or you can be - in five years - to be a project manager, 15.8 years for a Business Development Manager, 15-20 years old to be a consultant in business development, 20-30 years of being a CMO and therefore
* Or you can even create your own business, create jobs and much more


What this exercise?

For me, that's exactly what we call in the definition of a vision of ourselves. This exercise is fast career structure. Unconsciously, but also sets the correct size and expectations (with you) to your current credit on any paper that can suck in your aspiration and also for future features to manage.

One of the greatest gifts God has given us the power to dream. The beauty of a dream that has no rules or limits. So you can dream of anything in this world - even things that do not exist in this world.

Each major step begins with one step.
Every step you take builds confidence and positive attitude in yourself and more of these steps will lead to increased roles and responsibilities. The small steps you have taken will be invested for their future. I think it's the only right way to shape his career. That should be gradual and constant and must align with your skills. This means that ... There are no shortcuts!

However, there is a way you can adjust the speed at which it reaches new heights .. by taking these small steps and learn from their mistakes more often. Imagine that you set your goals on a daily basis and evaluate at the end of the day, setting new goals for the next day! .. There is no limit to the height you can reach.

This means that all the horoscopes of his career can be written for you.

Now the question is, what is the first step should be. Simple! Begin the first step dreaming.Dreaming about you and the future of their organization, work plan, success and glory.

* If you grow your business in terms of number of grounds that the employee begins to dream of hundreds and thousands of people working around you
* For companies to grow in size and scope, start dreaming of a delivery center in every part of the world
* If the organization of the social cause, start dreaming about how the people of India to change and grow with our contribution.
* If this is in terms of luxury, fame, comfort, and the so-called "status", then go ahead and dream big castles crystal in its own park with facilities of high fidelity.


Sleep is the first step just to make it real. Let's start with the least investment of cash.

Postscript not forget to take the second step .. Dreams with further effort is useless. Maintain performance .. Beware rediscover.

Career planning – a journey from ‘having Potential’ to ‘building capability’.

How many times have we done to our desk to plan a successful career? When you feel the next time, just try some of these tips.
Career planning is a conglomerate of several successful short tours carefully planned where each tour starts from the person has a potential "stage" for the capacity. "Let's see how we can break the thought.

Many times we can not interpret the potential of the word. If someone tells you that you have a good potential, it just means we're on the right track, but are not there. Many times on our laurels and forget at this time to go further and build capacity.

To begin, it is important for us to know our potential. For example, if someone says, has the potential to become a good manager does not mean you're a good administrator. It just means that you have the qualities to become a manager. Any work that person ends up where he said his work is just beginning. Now you have to nurture the potential and acquire the necessary maturity to handle a management position.

This simply means they have the potential not going to help, but you have to work to build capacity in you. Until then, you are an inmate. It's as good as a person, alone with her imaginative capacity does not become an architect, he has the ability to build learning skills through a well designed architecture course.

You should never try to venture into an area where they have potential. To identify areas of potential is very important. The human race has been created with the diverse nature so that each has a specific role to play. The key is to identify the role it should play in his career.

If you end up doing work that you disagree with your abilities, your life will be nothing short of a disaster. This is true as long as you have good position. Similarly, if you work where you can add value, you can enjoy every bit of his professional life. This is true regardless of the type of work you do.

Now let's see how to increase capacity. The experience with the right skills is what defines its capacity. The path of the potential has to do with feeding their potential in line with the end result, ie the "ability to take the form of building knowledge through appropriate experience."

Here, the only variable is the level of experience you can get. The experience varies according to two factors
1. Availability of opportunities
2. Alertness to seize the opportunity.

The good news is that if one is alert, the potential will come to your door. Or in other words, we fail to recognize the opportunities that are knocking on our door, simply because they are not alert. While the opportunity is not a random factor, which is also a factor in the monitoring and acceptance.

In short, if you're smart, they will use the opportunity available to efficiently and demonstrate that success has to do with the objective of;
1. Identifying potential and every opportunity
2. The perseverance and focus to take the opportunity and the potential to feed
3. Strengthen the capacity of the experience of the right exposure and experience

So beware! Opportunity is already in our steps toward the door. Its short distance from the potential to start right now!

What to improve productivity?

RESPECT = productivity! ... It seems strange? But true.Let try to understand this theory.

If you want to improve productivity in your workplace, we must return to the fundamentals of human nature.What I mean is this. Anything that involves human effort has a hidden factor contributed to its success. It is the will of the human spirit!

Unless the mind of a person is close enough, you will not share your ideas and willing to not give the desired result.

Productivity can be measured in terms of quality, speed, efficiency, cost savings, etc. As most of our work involves human effort, the output varies depending on your mood of the person for the job.

Now the question is how to ensure that the person has a good set-up mind to do the job? Simple! Just make sure it comes with a good atmosphere at work.
Now, how to ensure a good environment?. More than once, is not only the physical environment and gadgets in the atmosphere of the office will suffice. It is the attitude of the personality that makes the maximum difference.

The only thing that can substitute for any mental obstacle of one person can be is through self-esteem. This is why different people to overcome difficulties related to the different levels of success.
A person with higher self-esteem and confidence to handle difficult situations better

A good manager should understand this fundamental truth, and is expected to start increasing your co-esteem. How can we do?

Simple! Give respect and space for him to execute their ideas at work.

However, the position of big / little remains of his companion;
1. I respect him for all the work you are doing, because without it, this part of the work is incomplete and also because you can not fall into place and how every small or large the work you do - like how there can be in their shoes.
2. Observe your thoughts and ideas, a great idea could change the phase of delivery, or even your company
3. Respect is a part of your team, because without it, your team is incomplete
4. Respect him for his good deeds, because you never know, his only act as servants could inspire his team as a whole
5. Respect him for his failures because he was ready to face the same challenge has changed since the last failure and have a more qualified person with you.

Finally, respect for no particular reason? Because self-esteem is another person like you!

Finally, without the help of his team can accomplish anything. The time to start respecting people for who they are, people are starting to go all the way to help you. They try to put in their best efforts to ensure that their interests are. There is no better way to get the best result.

How much more control put in place to improve productivity, so the basic factor mentioned above, the efficiency will always be a meter below the desired one.
Similarly, if you start to respect your team, no matter what the minimum level of controls that will ensure a minimum level of productivity desired.

That's because we now have a self-motivated team that is already on autopilot. Now, what do you think? Productivity = the respect?

Strategizing – a skill worth acquiring

How many of us feel the importance of appropriate strategies for the tasks and objectives of the meeting? If not, it is useful to consider now.

Almost all of us in this busy world are very good to work hard to achieve. In fact, the work became a standard and not be given the full benefit if you want to compete.

For many occasions, we also heard people saying experience "not only work hard and smart." What does this mean? Trying to understand.

Customer expectations and our ambitions for the new benchmark in customer delight is almost unlimited, but our time, resources, capacities are always limited to their availability.Hence will always be a large disparity in meetings both in the same point.

The most common scenario is the commitment or in quality to meet deadlines or the extent of delays in obtaining a desired quality. Both have their own impact on customer delight. So the way to approach this? The only solution is to have a good strategy for implementing the right from the beginning and meet quality and time without compromise.

In short, the development of strategies has to do with how to reduce the 'H' hours required (in the normal scenario) in the performance of a task to say the number of H / X "time without compromising quality.

The "How to achieve" a part of any task is a smart way to fame and formula. Although it is mostly left to individual strategies, there are some basic guidelines that can help define the right path from the beginning.

1. Never dive into a solution available to start work on tasks without having to personally convinced of the solution-This will ensure that the solution is fundamentally sound
2. Investing a lot of time in the beginning of a task for the development of strategies in the right path to a resolution - this will save a lot of time later execution.
3. Take stock of resources of time and effort - This will help ensure that expectations are set early at all levels
4. Juggling your mind / laptop with all the permutations and combinations to assign the right job the right set of people - this type of delegation and help you gain confidence in their own solution
5. Prepare Excel spreadsheets with data collection during the execution of tasks - that we reaffirm that every step is precisely supported by facts and figures
6. Always analyze the data through its implementation phase - This will help to develop strategies to return to the implementation phase
7. Change your strategy based on how the progress of delivery - is very important that the same solution at the beginning may not apply during the entire delivery
8. Establish priorities for delivery and completion of stress tasks based on priority of major clients - Very important to achieve the final result of the joy of the customer
9. Phase of delivery, if necessary, and keep the customer informed of the various stages and results for well in advance, that even tension and ensure quality at every stage
10. After each stage of delivery, e-mail closed with consolidated the achievements of this tune with what should be the next stage - this will demonstrate your professionalism to the customer in good condition throughout the delivery phase.
11. Fill each phase with at most care is delivered in the head at one end to another successful - This will ensure a perfect delivery and give you the confidence that can take over tasks

The basic rule, while the definition of the strategy is that you never know how to change your initial strategy, unless you start implementing it. So the key is to start running once you have a trust-worthy in the initial strategy.

Once the initial strategy, while its execution, an entropy slips in his favor as many non-value added time to take on tasks. The main objective should be to identify and isolate them.

This will improve efficiency by reducing the time to do the work for the realization of our 'H / X' target hours. Once you master this art, you can begin to define the denominator of your needs. For starters, half the time normally required (M / 2) must be a good start.

The key is to have a good strategy to start with and then redefine the strategy throughout the delivery stage to the final phase is signed by the client.
Let's start with ourselves, a challenge that we will complete the task in time and a half. I bet a good strategy will be a pleasure for you and your management team.

Turn your negatives to positives


Have you ever wondered, "How am I going to live with her so-called negative traits, yet excel in your career?" I give you my word that one can not live with her, but also use it to get positive results.

To do this you must first understand the ground you walk on.
1. The first step knows your own limits - This helps you know what you want to improve.
a. Write down the things you need to improve. For example: temperedness shorter, more aggressive nature of the case, the management capacity of the poor, etc.
2. The second step is to know your own strength. Each of us is endowed with a single force. But if you know how / when to sell / use his strength, is of limited use.
a. Write your own strengths. For example, high level of awareness, meticulous and methodical, commitment, etc. laborious

Now begins the game!
• Of all the things you want to upgrade, choose one you feel easier for you. Here is the options' temperedness short, "for example.
• Choose one of the points you can have to complement the desired point positive above negative. I can choose here, 'high level of awareness, "for example.

Now we are almost there! The club, in an emotion. This means, in the example above are "short temperedness with a high level of consciousness."
Now let's see how this can be useful and practical in our careers.

Suppose you want as a manager to handle a situation where the delivery is at stake and the team has a limited ability to handle the crisis as they continue to be relaxed and satisfied. And that - the director seems to be the only person who is serious about delivery.

Now what? - Movement and wake them and get on their toes!
How? - Shiver their spines!

Now the problem is that you can not shake the backbone of a team to be friendly people and nice cats.

Have you ever heard about how Srikrishna shivered in the spine during Arjuna when Arjuna surrendered their weapons, just before the Mahabharata war? He began the conversation with Arjuna calling him a coward! Srikrishna called him a coward Arjuna aware that in reality is not a coward. Krishna was also fully aware that this is going to shake and it worked! It was too much for a warrior like Arjuna proclaimed assimilates. How can Arjuna which is proclaimed as the greatest warrior of all time as a coward. She shivered in the backbone of Arjuna and woke up his mind to continue with the rest of the conversation in full consciousness.

In our case, a similar approach should be used. You have to keep calm for the team to wake, but with full awareness that "I do this for a purpose and objective is to awaken the computer to listen and execute my strategy for the delivery." Once the treatment is given, this time you should take your emotions and return to their songs.

Believe me, even though these two qualities of work can not be independent, so, it adds the dimension management capabilities when used together in a timely manner.

It's just one example I gave. You can try hundreds of different combinations of his own characters - especially their strengths and weaknesses to add a dimension to your character and in turn improve their management skills.

I hope you have an idea of what it. The rest I leave to your imagination.

Last but not least, the best performance by a person of their own, not for advice and information from abroad for the simple reason that making changes in you is your own thought processes and construction. Others can only give advice and guidance. It is "Do it yourself exercise.